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How to pronounce “turnip”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of turnip with real speech in context.
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- Cooking for Geeks
Turnip?
- Definition summary
- The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
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How to pronounce turnip
Cooking for Geeks

Turnip?
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A Deep Dive Into “turnip”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
- (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus.
- (Hong Kong) The white root of Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus, also known as a daikon.[2]
- (Singapore, Malaysia, by extension) The root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus; jicama.
- (dated) Clipping of turnip watch
- (slang) A fool or simpleton.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To plant with turnips.
- (transitive) To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.
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